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" This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, — often the surfeit of our own behaviour, — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars... "
The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures Gathered from Many Sources ... - Page 235
1895 - 323 pages
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...the noble and true-hearted Kent banished ! his offence, honesty ! — Strange ! strange ! [Exit. Edm. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, (often the surfeit of our own behavior,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains...
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The Tragedies of Sophocles: Literally Translated Into English Prose, with Notes

Sophocles - 1837 - 324 pages
...age made itself gods of all the host of heaven. On this there are some forcible ren;iarks in Lear ; " This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that,...when we are sick in fortune (often the surfeit of our behaviour) we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars : as if we were villains...
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The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five Cantos

William Dearden - 1837 - 200 pages
...in regard to Astrology, he is ready to exclaim with Edmund, in Shakspeare's tragedy of King Lear, " This is the excellent foppery of the world ! that, when we are sick in fortune, (often from the surfeit of our own behaviour,) we make guilty of our disasters, the sun, the moon, and the...
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Must We Mean What We Say?: A Book of Essays

Stanley Cavell - 2002 - 412 pages
...ignorance than the characters have. Edmund sees something like this (in his early soliloquy, ". . . we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars . . ."), but, being Edmund, he finds it comic. And no play can show more instances and ranges than...
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Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare: George Eliot, A.C. Swinburne ...

Robert Sawyer - 2003 - 182 pages
...(254). This attitude sounds similar to the type of predisposition Edmund so carefully describes in Lear: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that,...are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars;... An admirable evasion...
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Shakespeare and the Human Mystery

J. Philip Newell - 2003 - 148 pages
...influences on our lives. Self-determination and the power of the will, he contends, is all that matters: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune - often the surfeits of our own behaviour - we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars, as if...
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Structure and Agency in Everyday Life: An Introduction to Social Psychology

Gil Richard Musolf - 2003 - 372 pages
...from King Lear. Determinism in the stars? Even Edmund knew that that was rationalization and evasion. This is the excellent foppery of the world, that when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behavior, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars; as if we...
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Disowning Knowledge: In Seven Plays of Shakespeare

Stanley Cavell - 2003 - 276 pages
...ignorance than the characters have. Edmund sees something like this (in his early soliloquy, ". . . we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and stars"), but, being Edmund, he finds it comic. And no play can show more instances and ranges than King Lear...
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Cool, Hip & Sober: 88 Ways to Beat Booze and Drugs

Bill Manville, William Henry Manville - 2003 - 300 pages
...seem to be married to her. Your question raises an important issue for addicts. Blaming others. . . . when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeit of our own behavior — we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains...
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Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology, and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare ...

Jonathan Dollimore - 2004 - 420 pages
...metaphysically determined (and therefore unalterable): 'When we are sick in fortune, often the surfeits of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters...villains on necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion ... by a divine thrusting on' (I. ii. 122-31). Closely related to this refusal of the classical ideological...
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